Alvin Gipson
Birmingham Black Barons 1941–1946
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified pitchers
of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 64 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 12 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 21.2 | 18.8 | .191 | -1.0 |
| 1942 | 13 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .059 | .059 | .059 | .118 | -55.2 | -64.9 | .055 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 14 | 35 | 34 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .206 | .235 | .441 | 34.6 | 35.3 | .209 | 0.7 |
| 1944 | 11 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .231 | .462 | 40.6 | 43.2 | .222 | 0.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .273 | .545 | 61.5 | 59.9 | .257 | 0.5 |
| 1946 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | 3.1 | -1.6 | .161 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 33 | 20 | 27 | 1 | 48.3 | 6.14 | 1.614 | 5.03 | 4.10 | 110.4 | 60.4 | -1.0 |
| 1942 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 21 | 15 | 24 | 2 | 40.7 | 4.65 | 1.648 | 5.31 | 4.11 | 101.4 | 87.2 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 70 | 30 | 18 | 62 | 1 | 73.7 | 3.67 | 1.195 | 7.57 | 2.76 | 73.3 | 102.7 | 0.7 |
| 1944 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 57 | 26 | 19 | 34 | 0 | 61.7 | 3.79 | 1.232 | 4.96 | 3.17 | 94.1 | 88.7 | 0.2 |
| 1945 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 29.0 | 3.72 | 1.172 | 3.72 | 4.07 | 96.1 | 113.9 | 0.5 |
| 1946 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 9.0 | 10.00 | 1.778 | 8.00 | 3.28 | 79.9 | 41.0 | -0.5 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-09-04 | BBB @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-06-17 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1944-06-08 | BBB @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1944-06-11 | BBB @ HOM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1945-06-17 | NYC @ BBB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-21 | BBB @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 0 |
| 1943-07-13 | BBB @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1943-05-23 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1944-07-16 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1942-04-16 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 5.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.